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Greens to introduce radioactive waste dump legislation – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Greens to introduce radioactive waste dump legislation

ABC News 24 Sept 08 The Greens are to introduce legislation to the Federal Parliament aimed at banning future radioactive waste dumps in the Northern Territory.

Greens Senator Scott Ludlam says the Federal Government has failed to honour an election promise to repeal the legislation which enabled the material to be dumped in the Territory.

He says now is the time to act and examine how to manage the problem.

“No-one anywhere in the world has figured out how to safely store and contain this material for the long periods of time that it is dangerous,” he said.

“So what we are saying, rather than trucking it out from Sydney and dumping it on some politically vulnerable community in the Northern Territory, we need to go back to square one and look at how, firstly how safe this material is, where it is, does it need to be re-packaged and hardened up? And secondly, what our long term strategy for this stuff should be.”

Greens to introduce radioactive waste dump legislation – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

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September 25, 2008 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uncategorized